Jun. 2nd, 2007

FEW, so far

Jun. 2nd, 2007 03:12 pm
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Thursday I met [livejournal.com profile] easwaran IRL. Went to almost all the talks. Muldoon had a "foraging"-sort of model of scientific projects.
Hung out at Harris Grill + Doc's place. Heavy philosophical conversation. Kenny is also interested in applying Bayesian epistemology to mathematical statements.

Friday, after the talks, I went to my first baseball game ever, which was more fun than I expected. So many statistics everywhere! I had Lara Buchak, Teddy Seidenfeld and Richard Scheines next to me explaining the game and its strategies. Then, to avoid the post-game traffic, my group walked a few blocks around the downtown. Met a local bluegrass band, notably lacking a fiddle. They played fast. I would definitely need some acclimating before playing with them out there.

Epistemology is about norms of belief. Almost all norms that I've seen so far entail unreasonable expectations of computational agents, such as logical omniscience.

I wish people would treat these things at the level of cognitive simulation. If you think people are being stupid, show how they could do better, with a concrete simulation with the simulate agent under constraints similar to the agent you're criticizing.

Anyway, I'm kinda jaded with philosophy. I want to see some concrete progress, and I don't see philosophers taking their ideas anywhere. But at least, most of them here have slides, rather than read their whole lecture word-by-word from the paper, which I understand is the traditional way these things are presented. But why no argument maps?

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